Tag: NCGA

#ncga: Tax ALL the things!

Posted on June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Check out this doozy in the latest version of the budget, H.97, being kicked around Jones Street (p.491, lines 8-9): […] A privilege tax is imposed on a retailer engaged

#ncga: WHO is Joseph Dollar?

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Brant Clifton

“Who is John Galt? ” — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ——————————— Bob Dole has been renowned for referring to himself in the third person. Could we have a similar case RIGHT

#ncga: Voter ID charlie-foxtrot = Tata’s fault?

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Brant Clifton

That’s the latest spin coming out of our fair capital city. The grassroots have been fuming since a last-minute surprise watering down of voter ID breezed through the General Assembly.

#ncga: Affa-David Lewis says ‘ALL is well’ with voter ID

Posted on June 20, 2015June 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

You can tell when Raleigh starts feeling the heat on something. They tend to dispatch underlings bearing emails to calm the peons outside the beltline. And we happen to have a

#ncga: Fletch OWES

Posted on June 20, 2015June 20, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Electorally speaking, things weren’t so tough for senator Fletcher Hartsell from 2012 to 2014. So, why did he personally dump six figures into his campaign fund during that time? Hartsell

#ncga: Fletch Rents

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Political consultant do a lot of things for their clients. Not many play landlord for them. We’ve been following the unusual case of state senator Fletcher Hartsell (RINO-Cabarrus) —

#ncga: Affidavits instead of photo ID?

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Incredible. It is amazing that something that is sooooo common sense is having such difficulty navigating through the conservative revolution: Voters who do not have photo identification would be able

#ncga: A little Susi and Trish time on Twitter

Posted on June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 by Brant Clifton

We’re on Twitter here. You can waste a lot of time there if you’re not careful. There are all kinds of people — from all political stripes and varying levels

#ncga [ Heard the one about the RINO and the prosecutor? (Stop US if you have …) ]

Posted on June 17, 2015June 17, 2015 by Brant Clifton

It took two-and-a-half years, but state Senator Fletcher Hartsell’s (RINO-Cabarrus) campaign finance / ethics case is going to get some attention from an actual bona fide prosecutor: More than $600

I-77 toll lane furor igniting GOP family feud in Charlotte area

Posted on June 14, 2015June 14, 2015 by Brant Clifton

Here we have a recent radio interview with our, um, “Republican” governor explaining how we need to pay more in gas tax and get to like paying tolls if we